Word: views
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crowd surpassing even the greatest pre-Yale football mass meeting turned out in the Living Room of the Union last evening in view of the prospects of war; and there heard "the hose of common sense" turned on the present situation. Major Higginson's text was "Keep your shirt on," and the trend of Dean Briggs' and President Lowell's speeches was the same, with Dean Briggs adding that there was no danger in waiting, because shirts could be torn off in a great hurry, when necessity demanded it. In addition to the speakers, Bishop William Lawrence...
...must regard the situation from a practical, matter-of-fact point of view, and must resist our desire to forsake routine for novelty. He concluded with saying, "Take no risk of distracting and distressing your fathers, mothers, and friends without sufficient reason. Remember that the risk you take is not only for yourself, but for those who are near you. Stick to your work here until your work becomes war, and then answer the call of your country and go and fight with everything that is within...
...Keep your shirt on"--"watchful waiting" was the key of last evening's meeting "in view of the prospects of war." And there were very few men who left the Union without a deep impression of the sanity of three remarkably fine speeches. It is just such times as these that call attention to the potential value to the country of milita training and the Military Camps for College men, of a sound knowledge of health and sanitation, and even of a trained mind...
There will be a meeting of the students of Harvard College in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock in view of the prospects of war. Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 and Dean Briggs will speak...
...intend to try out for the University and Freshman golf team should leave their names with S. P. Griffitts '15, Russell 8, and fill out tabular view cards before 5 o'clock tonight. Trials will begin at the Oakley Country Club tomorrow afternoon, and will continue until vacation...